Full Video: Woman Empowerment: Two Essential Dimensions || Acharya Prashant, with ITM-Mumbai (2023)
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00:00Even if you take care of all those institutions, the external ones, the religious ones, the
00:06educational ones, the legal ones, the woman would still not be free.
00:11Even if you bestow all kinds of powers on her, she would still either refuse to wield
00:19those powers or would misuse those powers.
00:22Because internal bondage is way more severe than any kind of external bondage.
00:28If you give her external freedom without caring for her internal freedom, external freedom
00:34will become dangerous because it will create an illusion of freedom.
00:38A lot of so-called empowered women today, they say we are empowered, but internally
00:43they are still living in the jungle variety of bondage.
00:50So that's where self-knowledge comes in and that's where wisdom literature comes in.
00:55That's where Vedanta comes to the woman's rescue.